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1. During the
year under review the Mission and Math had the following medical
and allied units.

2.Specialised Medical Treatments : The following special treatments were provided by some of our centres through their hospitals, dispensaries, special programmes, camps, etc.

a. Eye treatment was rendered by our centres at Belgaum, Bhopal, Garbeta, Kamarpukur, Patna, Porbandar, Rajkot, Ulsoor, and so on, and at the hospitals in Lucknow, Muzaffarpur, Vrindaban, etc. Besides, many centres have separate eye-department attached to their dispensaries.

3. Medical Camps : In the eye camps, 11,794 patients were operated on for cataract and 3404 of them were given spectacles free of all charges. Besides, 4130 units of blood were collected from voluntary blood donors through 76 blood donation camps.

The total expenditure incurred for medical work during 2012-13 was Rs. 146.37 crore.

The Math and the Mission centres lived up to their reputation in the field of education. Apart from excellent academic performance, the students won laurels in sports and other extracurricular activities. The educational work of the twin organizations is summarized in the following table.

Details
of various vocational trainings
provided are given below:

Details
of various cultural units / programmes
provided are given below:

The total expenditure incurred for educational work during 2012-13 was Rs. 251.88 crore.

(b) through our urban centres which have taken up development projects in rural and tribal areas; and

(c) through our educational and medical institutions in semi-urban areas, where rural people form a significant percentage of the beneficiaries.

The Math and the Mission spent a sum of Rs. 41.26 crore for rural and tribal development work, apart from the huge expenditure incurred by the educational and medical institutions located in rural and tribal areas.

In
the year under review, following services were provided by the Math and
the
Mission in rural and tribal areas:

(ii)
Medical Services: In the year under
review the Math and Mission had the following medical
units in rural and tribal areas :

(iii)
Educational Services : In the year under
review the Math and Mission had the following
educational institutions in rural and tribal areas :

Details
of various vocational trainings provided are given
below:

The centres in Aalo (Along), Antpur, Chapra, Cherrapunjee, Coimbatore (Mission), Ichapur, Jayrambati, Kamarpukur, Kalady, Malliankaranai (Tamil Nadu), Manasadwip (West Bengal), Mysore, Narainpur (Chhattisgarh), Narottam Nagar, Nattarampalli, Ramharipur, Sargachhi, Sarisha, Shivanahalli (Bangalore), Viveknagar (Agartala), Thrissur, etc, directly catered to the needs of rural and tribal folk in a big way, and a number of rural units were run by the centres at Belur (Saradapitha), Contai, Narendrapur, Ranchi (Morabadi), etc. Of these, special mention may be made of the numerous village units started for educating the hill tribes in Meghalaya, various village development programmes conducted by Narendrapur (Kolkata) centre catering the needs for all-round village development, as well as the farming centre in Ranchi, specially meant for people belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Schdeuled Tribes. The tribal development project of our centre at Narainpur has made a significant contribution towards the all-round development of the local tribes. Our educational, medical and cultural activities in Arunachal Pradesh have proved to be very useful and popular.

Apart
from this, there were libraries,
audio-visual units, etc. to serve rural and tribal people, details of
which are
shown below:

(iv) In
the year under review, the Math and
Mission provided the following under rural welfare works in rural and
tribal
areas :

(v)
Pallimangal (Integrated Rural Development) Activities:The activities under Pallimangal (a) project
initiated in 1980 by the Headquarters) continued in the villages in and
around
Kamarpukur and Jayrambati in West Bengal. The major service programmes
conducted under this project during the year are given below.

(A) Medical Activities: (a) 6728 patients were treated by the mobile medical unit. Special medical programmes and camps, and health care and awareness programmes were conducted at Kamarpukur, benefiting several thousand villagers. (b) Under National Leprosy Elimination Programme, 57 persons were given treatment. (c) A programme on Control of Tuberculosis through Community Based Directly Observed Treatment with Short-Course-Therapy (DOTS) under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) continued, under which 70 cases were treated during the year. (d) Nutritious diet was provided to 211 children under Child Nutrition Programme.

(B) Educational and Cultural Activities: (a) 17 non-formal education centres and 37 free coaching centres benefited 1502 students. (b) A number of students were given textbooks, uniforms, etc. Scholarships and financial assistance were given to a good number of students. (c) Cultural programmes, competitions in sports and games, etc were organized.

Both the
Mission and the Math have permanent
programmes for service to women, the most important of which are
mentioned
below.

1.Care
for pregnant and nursing women through the maternity departments of our
hospitals in Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Vrindaban, Thiruvananthapuram
and also
through other hospitals and clinics run by us.

2.Old-age
Home for women in Varanasi.

3.Educational
service to girls :

(a)A
large educational complex, exclusively for girls, run by Ramakrishna
Mission
Sarada Vidyalaya, Chennai, offering education to girls from the primary
to the
higher secondary level.

Apart
from the above, there are
co-educational schools of different grades under our centres in Aalo
(Along),
Coimbatore Mission, Chennai (T.Nagar), Kalady, Jayrambati, Bhubaneswar,
etc.
Besides, a Sanskrit co-educational school is functioning at Kalady.

Apart
from the educational and cultural
programmes for students conducted by our educational centres, some of
our
Mission and Math centres have separate recreational and cultural
centres called
Balak Sanghas (for children) and Yuvak Sanghas (for youths) in
Bangalore,
Belgaum, Chennai (Math), Hyderabad, Indore, Kankurgachhi, Malda,
Mangalore,
Mysore, Ponnampet, Pune, Rajkot, Ranchi (Morabadi), Salem,
Shivanahalli,
Ulsoor, Vijayawada, and a few other places. In these centres, children
are
provided with supplementary nutrition and guidance in the practice of
social,
moral and spiritual values, and are also taught the basics of
scriptures, chanting,
devotional music, etc.

The
various activities of the Math and
Mission are spread over both in rural and urban areas. The
participation of
lakhs of people in the annual festivals and celebrations is indicative
of the
steady growth in the spreading of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda message. The
ashramas
and temples situated all over the country drew a great number of people
throughout the year.

Both the
Math and the Mission
centres lay emphasis on the dissemination of the spiritual and cultural
ideals
of India. Through various types of activities, they try to give a
practical
shape to the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, especially that all
religions are
true. The centres establish real points of contact among people of
different
faiths through a
large number of libraries, lectures, seminars, youth
camps, Balak
Sanghas, regular classes, public celebrations,
occasional exhibitions,
screening films on religious and cultural values,
etc.During the year, the Math and
Mission centres organized several classes / lectures, the details of
which are
given below.

Preaching
/ Lecture

No. of
Classes

Attendance

Classes /
Lectures

24,863

26,85,789

Retreats

495

1,09,831

Celebrations
/ Public Meetings

1,207

10,83,661

Besides, many of our centres served rural folks by spreading spiritual and cultural ideas among them through mobile units like â€˜Jnana Vahiniâ€™, â€˜Viveka Vahiniâ€™, etc. Educative and religious film shows, lectures, exhibitions, guided meditation, personality development classes, book-sales, etc were organized in the interior parts of the country. Many centres such as Belgaum, Chennai Math, Hyderabad, Kadapa, Mysore, Patna, Ranchi (Morabadi), Vijayawada, etc have started institutions like â€˜VIVECâ€™ (Vivekananda Institute of Value Education and Culture) to impart value education to people in general.

During the year, 6,59,295 people
participated in various programmes conducted by 2892 Cultural Units of
the Math
and Mission such as Balak Sanghas, Youth Sanghas, Jnana Vahini, Viveka
Murasu,
VIDYA, Institute of Human Excellence, etc.

Apart from this, 269 libraries were
run by our Math & Mission centres; most of these libraries had
attached
reading rooms also. The details are shown below.

Libraries
&

Reading
Rooms

(in
Rural & Urban areas)

No.

of

Units

No.

of

Books

Newspapers

Periodicals

Books

Issues

Attendance

Public
Libraries

140

17,31,665

618

4,091

9,31,040

13,45,304

School /
College Libraries

129

12,26,598

220

8,111

2,97,758

5,31,041

Centres of the Math and Mission published
several books and 24 journals
in different languages. The Math centres at Mayavati, Baghbazar
(Kolkata),
Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Mysore, Rajkot, Thrissur and Bhubaneswar,
in
particular, have to their credit a considerable number of publications.
A sum
of Rs. 27.17 crore was spent on publication work during the year. Some
of our
centres in other countries are also publishing valuable books.

Books

Publication
Centres

New
Titles in 2012-13

Reprints in 2012-13

Titles in
Circulation

Mission

2

60

77

429

Math

16

134

1,564

3,612

Periodicals

Publication
Centres

Periodicals

Languages

Subscribers

Mission

8

8

4

36,630

Math

13

14

10

4,06,021

Institutes
for Sanskrit studies —
one for postgraduate studies and research, a college, 3 schools, and a Chatushpathi — were run.

The Math and Mission centres
maintained temples and prayer halls,
and organized lectures, retreats and devotees’ meets.
Thousands of people were inspired to accept higher values of life by
coming
into contact with the different centres.

It is noteworthy that the member
Ashramas of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Bhava
Prachar Parishads in different parts of the country also, under the
guidance of Ramakrishna Math, spread moral values and culture.

Most of
the Math and Mission centres
celebrated the birthdays of great saints and prophets, popular Hindu
festivals
and Christmas Eve. The general features of the celebrations of the
birthdays of
Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda
were:
special worship, homa, chanting from scriptural texts, bhajan and
sankirtan,
distribution of prasad to devotees, feeding of the poor in large
numbers, and
lectures by the sannyasins of the Order and other eminent speakers.
Thus the
message of Sri Ramakrishna and his direct associates was spread
steadily. Many
ardent souls came in close touch with the ideals of the Math and
Mission.